Naha, Tyra – Jar with Tumbling Parrots

Tyra Naha is a daughter of Rainy Naha.   She learned to make pottery from her mother and continues to make traditional style Hopi-Tewa pottery in the style of her grandmother, Helen “Feather Woman” Naha.  This jar is coil built and painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black).  The designs are a series of tumbling parrots. They are each painted with different clay slips to create a striking coloration.  The rim and base are a checkerboard pattern.  The jar is traditionally fired and signed on the bottom with a feather and spider (Spider Clan ) and a “3” for being the Third Generation of the Naha family.

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Naha, Tyra

Tyra Naha (or Tyra Naha-Black, or Tyra Naha Tawawina) represents the third generation in a family of well-known Hopi Pueblo potters. She is the great granddaughter of Paqua Naha, a granddaughter of Helen "Featherwoman" Naha and a daughter of Rainy Naha. She is a niece of Syliva Naha and Burell Naha. Each piece is coil built, stone polished and painted with native clay slips. Her pottery is signed with a feather and a 3, representing being third generation of from Helen Naha. The spider represents her being Spider Clan.